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A PUND FOR THE STRICKEN ITALIANS.
HE JOURNAL today received a telegram from
W. R. Hearst asking for its cooperation and to
take charge of a fund in
ill. v.-r,t h 20000 nenniless. hungry and
lor
IIIV vvsiwaev va -
" hopeless refugee who now throng Naples, Headed by
a subscription ef $2,000 from Mr,:jlearst, the fund was
swelled in two day to tlO,(X)0.' - -
i. There ia no'city or hamlet in the
:. which should not do its whole duty
dreadful ealamity. No country ha
recent yeara at this,' no people are so
people have'sd much to be thankful
The Journal will willingly do its
"and acknowledge and forward "any
any source that may be received by it.
U THE BRIDGE MUST BE
HE JOURNAL has been in favor of a double
v decked bridge on the lower Willamette, provided
it was feasible. ' In the opinion of the Tort of
Portland it is not feasible because of the length of the
T draw, which will be longer than that of any other draw
bridge that is in existence. So far the commission has
got, but no farther.
It is now confronting a number f objections, some of
thero more or less arbitrary in their nature, and it be
gins to look as though the outcome may be a deadlock
and the benefits which were expected to flow from the
onstniction-nhe-dgesarkingaheerjninufrot
. the Portland & Seattle railroad would
tailed. It can no longer be deniei. that
up in the city a feeling ot inaignauon wmcu ; ,my,j
rising to fever beat The people of the city wish to sec
. the rights of the community safeguarded in the construc
tion of the bridge, but they do not want to see any
petty and irritating exactions?-" (
- Th matter has now' been before
'many months." Three members of the
a tour of the country to get light, and
proved by the public "But apparently
than we ever were to a solution
" whether .permission will be granted
bridge. We observe that there is also growing up a
spirit of irritation among the railroad people, who aeem
to feel that much or the -hesitation,
members of the txrt is due to the
railroad. There has been no concealment of the fact
that obstructive tactics were being resorted to, which
. lends some color tq the rumors that have been flying
about ...-..y..-- ....-,..-7rr..
In the opinion of the most conservative, sufficient
time has now elapsed for the commission to have
reached certain tangible conclusions which ; would be
fair to the port 'and at the . same
onerously upon the railroad which
and which has already paid very liberally for the prop
erty which it has acquired. .Every day of delay, every
new . and unnecessary exaction, . increases the growing
indignation Which must speedily burst forth unless the
affair ia terminated and that, too, upon a fair and rea
sonable basis to the company.
CANNON FOR PRESIDENT.
T HERE ARE PAPERS that are booming Uncle
Joe Cannon for president : The Chicago Journal,
for instance, says: ,
"Wise counsel and vigorous activity both these quali
ties does Uncle Joe possess. He would ie a great presi
dent, of the United States, a worthy successor to Jack
son, Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, McKinley and Roose
velt He is sr patriot of the old order broad of mind,
clear of vision, sound of judgment, devoted to his coun
try,: impregnable to the attacks of wild theory, basing
all his decisions on the declaration of independence and
the constitution..' He could be trusted to pilot the ship
of state in the true course and keep it off the rocks onto
which emotional statesmanship would be likely to drive
it Vigorous in mind and body, his principles approved
By experience, his honesty rugged and aggressive, be
loved by all his fellow-citizens without distinction of
l party,. Joseph C Caanon would sweep the country as a
candidate for presidents L1.r..;--..-.
) There is a little truth in this, but most of it is liter
ally rot Cannon never was and never could be a great
statesman. He is a Joxy, thriving politician, a home-"
spun plutocrat that is all -
WOMANS SUFFRAGE
. DISCUSSED
So aTo Want smffreare.
, Portland.. April To the Editor of
'The Journal The. dlecueaion ' In prog
ress la vour columns on the equal
suffrage question- is full of Interest
- not only to those who take a decided
. . stand for or against but also to tboaa
' . who batons' neither to the proa nor antls
i but claim the right of examining both
. sides. -
' : TO' erne of ' these It aeema apparent
that woman wlald a trcmandoUa Influ
ence with or without the right to voia
. that la. It thay know how. but at the
' earn tlma la there any good argument
- t be advanced' In dafeaaa of manhood
suffrage that does not hold good for
qual euffragef.
'. Doubtlaa wyaen would do a good
dal of miachlef with the ballot for It
. la certain man have managed to and
without doubt thay would do ImmenM
good, or perhapa one might aay that
' thfr ballot r would - do, tham Immansa
- good. .'. .
Thare are. howtvsr, soma parplextng
thtng that have com to the .top in thla
dlncuaalmv" thstnottr: remarkable of
which la that tba women who ara win
ning their own way In the world and
perhaps adding not a little to. the sup
port of ethers, are not complaining that
lhay ' ara already so overburdened with
. raree and eeaponalbtlltUt they do not
. wlah to have the burden ef suffrage
superadded. SHrangely enough this cry
romea from the womm "who toll not,
. neither da they spin."
It la elwave the aame thing in the
buatnaoa world. If a man has a new
aehsme to promote or aome proponltlon
that ha wants to Intereet capital In, ha
, Invariably takes It to the buay man
for It la always the busy man who ran
take up one thing-more not the .Idle
, tnnn with time on his hands. '
But the meat serious indictment yel
.. made egainat oar present one-aided gov
ernment Is that used by the antls them
salves. They need the Itme they would
have te give to the ballot-bos and Its
eerae for "charity work." etc
If there la anything that reflects die
arrare on aur present governing method
It la the nead of this work, but at the
aame lima ' the mantle ef charity Is
fcelte the most becoming garment the
ON DA-1 L Y
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING " CO.
Sunday) and even; Sunday morning ,-
mu streets, ronuna, wrcgon.
AMOS
Portland and Oregon
state. lie
alliances of any
he wants the whole
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While the result
whole United Statea
m the. face of this
been so blessed in
prosperous and no
within the fold who
for,
duty in this respect
subscriptions from
been in favor of
BUILT.
take away from
tickets who stood
government and a
A fight along
plain that the old
the old plan of all
of the political prohibitionists.
SEE
HE SEE
jnd this
be mightily cur
there is growing
Courier:- "See Less
paper goes on to
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the commission for
commission made
this step was ap
we are noTiearer
-There-is quite
of the problem
as in Europe, and it costs little if any; more to travel
here than there Come to the Pacific northwest, behold
its beauties, its grandeurs and glories, its rawness and
richness, and love and "'see America first!
J , POLITICS AND PERSONALITY.
to construct the
on ine.part or n
influence of a rival
to eliminate the personal element from politics, and to
advance themselves men will attack in . an . effort to
shatter reputations of those standing in their path." The
Dubuque paper saya that this is the most "contemptible
phase of partisanship,1, and , it might have said, more
broadly, of politics. ;
Not that personality can be eliminated; human am
bition and desire for -success cannot, of course, be
eliminated; but men must be developed who will .think
of and work for others, for the whole, rather than merely
and solely in their own personal, individual interest
time not bear too
seeks to enter here
ROOSEVELT
D
ISPATCHES,
Can't we believe a
said, voluntarily,
run again. He keeps repeating this statement on every
possible-occasion. Thconclusion is that probably he
will run again. "Ne'er consenting, he will consent
5 Caesar thrice refused the kingly crown upon the
Lupercal, according to Marc Antony; and yet he was
made emperor. We think our president doth protest
too much.
',. T,he Oregonian announces in conspicuous headlines, 'as
a surprising fact, that there are "no perpetual franchise
men" among the legislative candidates. This is not news
to any one but the Oregonian. No one else supposed
that if the state
a candidate could be found who would advocate per
petual franchises. The Oregonian' might now perform
anoTnefgrtat public
o u-c candidates
woman af fashion puts on It is a sort
of excuse for her mode of lire that
nothing else can furnish, and she Is not
slow to avail herself of Its protection.
At the same time. In the exact pro
portion In which Justice rules In the in
dustrial and social conditions of life. Is
this so-called charity dispensed with
in short "Justice leaves no room for
charity," and If conditions are so bad
that theseever worked women -In the
causa of chsrlty cannot find time to
vote, why there Is certainly something
extremely "rotten In the state of Den
mark." There -Is still another claaa ef women
not clamoring for the ballot, though
It probably wields more power than any
other. It is not necessary to deal gnats
thla class, took back through history;
you will find ware have been provoked.
taxea. levied and ruin wroueht at the
beheat of women who earetf for nothing
but themselves, who would sacrifice the
uvea end the happiness of thousands to
satisfy a whlra or caprice or to wreak
vengeance for wounded vanity or pride.
We ell know what ! meant by the
"third house." Have yon ever stopped
te think that In every state capltol In
the national capltol. too, there Is also a
fourth house composed of unprincipled
women who . have Immense power'
whether ' for" good er evil. Judge for
yourself. .
Their Influence In Washington Is well
nigh inconceivable and these women do
not care to vote because they have
other ways of Influencing the currants
of political life te their complete satis
faction. ,
The fact beyond alt gainsaying. 1s
that the women who, llvs In luxury
they have never earned and ara over
worked dispensing "charity." and theae
women ef the under world. . members
or the "fourth house," do not ask equal
suffrage, while such women aa desire
It are buay, purposeful ones unwilling
to exert any influence except It be
wholeaome and above board.
FLORENCK WILUARD.
Wobms Suffrage gpaue saage to the
'v aUaae.
Portland, April 11. To the Editor ef
The Journal Id e communication pub
lished In Thursday evening" a Journal
the following question la addressed
primarily te ma: "If the state would
be In danger from women's vote, whet
sbout the. danger from the votes csst
by the 'large number, of Ignorant and
vicious meoT" -J believe there la much
danger te the community from the
JO URN A L
no. r. OAgSDIX
Tbe Journal Building, Fifth and Yaro-
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IS STILL THE CHIEF.". "
OR, FIFTEEN YEARS I. H. Amos has been at
. the head oft the prohibition movement pi the
has been an intense and earnest ad
vocate of an independent movement Without entangling
sort or description. He is one of those
who does not believe in accepting any part of the loaf
cf it and scorns anything less.
has been that there has been- n com
promise with principle, .there has scarcely been that
growth in the movement that some of the members of
the party would like to see. There have been some
believed in the. principle of accept
ing what they could get,' hanging on to that and then
moving forward, backed by public aentiment to another
point. closer to the goal. These men have not always
putting tickets into the field that might
the. strength of . candidates on other
a show of election, and while they
were not prohibitiortists were distinctly in favor f good
better enforcement of the laws..
this line was precipitated in the state
convention yesterday, but the outcome of. it makes it
guard are still in the saddle and that
or nothing will still be the' watchword
AMERICA FIRST.
AMERICA FIRST scheme and senti
ment is neing opposed by certain eastern papers,
opposition to the west can be sum
marized by a headline in . the . Charleston-Ne wT and
and Pay More."The Charleston
say that it costs more' to travel in this
country, especially the western part of it, than in Europe;
that the accommodations are not ao good; that nobody
can obtain good food, and that there is nothing aftei
all worth seeing I ; ' ;- r-
We are proud of not living in Charleston South
Carolina. We really doubt whether the editor of that
paper would in any wise enjoy a free trip out west
as much -to see in western America
HE Dubuque (Iowa) Telegraph said recently:
"Politics is war, and war "is what General Sher
man described it is. " .It is impossible
HAS DECLINED AGAIN.
ARE SENT out from Washington
almost every few-days stating that President
Roosevelt has again declined, Wherefore?
president of the United States? He
many months ago, that he would not
were scraped with a fine-tooth comb
service by ascertaining how marry
are believers in the Darwinian theory,
vicious end Ignorant vote among men.
The larger the vicious end Ignorant
vote the greater the danger. This Is
one ef the reasons why I shall voto
against the woman suffrage amendment
In June. Jt would Increase the vicious
vote and would multiply the Ignorant
vote by three or four. In the arguments
ef auffraglsts the issue before the peo
ple of Oregon Is. strangely misinterpreted.-It
is not proposed to give the
ballot to the good, IntaUlgent women
of Oregon, but to all women. The varl
oue classes of men who make our popu
lation have their counterpart among
women. There are vicious women ss
well es vicious men. There are many
more. Ignorant women, so far as elvlc
end political problems ere concerned,
than there are Ignorant men. It la pro
poaed by the woman suffragists to give
the ballot to all of these. I believe It
Involves danger to the etate, end thla
la one of the reasons for voting It down.
" 7 w WALjLACB M'CAMANT. ,
. Housework in -Schools.
From Good Housekeeping.
The nomas In the congested parts of
our cities, where the mothers are aadly
overworked, reveal immediately the touch
of the novitiate home makers. Children
who had formerly Spent all their time
out ef echool playing In the streets now
take a. pride In testing their school
reclpae, proving their laundry skin on
fsthar'e shirt er baby's dress, putting
their tnendlna- leaons In practice on the
boys' atocklngs end exhibiting their
millinery taste by retrlmmlng mother's
dilapidated, flve-aeaaons-old hat The
boys toe una putting up much-needed
shelvee and snaking chairs and tables as
rasclnatlng ae a game of crape.
A echool In Wisconsin sup'pllee a crlp
ploa' home with preaervea put up by Its
cooking classes, -A Chicago school says
that Its aewing pupils regularly make
the cbriatanlng dresses fox their bahy
brothers end slstere. One mother tells
the story ef finding her It-year-old
daughter Instructing a naw nnrae maid
In the cars ef the baby, warning her
particularly against overfeeding and
drawing a diagram ef the Infant's di
minutive atomach.
And See What Happened.
From the' Washington Post. '
tt is announced that a man has been
msde .president ot Bun to Llomlngo
against his wilt' A man was mads
vice-president once In thla country under
similar circumstances. ......
SMALL CHANGE
Odne in swimming yclt
The earth is again new bom,- '
Well, clean up, Monday. l - ' '
Birds were never mere roust cat
Whatever yen do U ether towns, get
pure wsier, as Portland has.
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Primaries neat week Important
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How's your yard? .
Don't have any offensive . smell
a round. ..
as.
Pay lesa taxes, get more for what
you pay.. . . .
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Don't Imagine this weather won't
change. - -- --- -. jv : 1
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It's nice to be an editor in a timber
region. He needs no opinions. - .
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Tomorrow will be Easter. ' "
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The rabbits axe lively! there are
tots r eggs. .
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The politician may net be as bad aa
ne aeema. -
Forget polltlca m little while tomor
row.
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Hew the bats will ehine. " '
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Praia God, from whom all bjeeslngs
now. : " --
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Politics doubtful all ever Oregon. ;
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How terribly virtuous the Oregonian
hss become since The Journal came to
town. - --- . x .
Don't be anonymous.
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The music will be fine tomorrow.
,. . ,e a . . ... ..
afulkey will get lt . ...
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We'd really rather It wouldn't rain
tomorrow, but maybe It will.
a
Don't forget the good roads.
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A. sound stomach. Is nearly as good
aa a sound brain.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Pine Valley correspondence o Hood
River. News-Letterr -Mr. end Mrs. Kol-
las and baby moved up on their claim
Wednesday and will atay on It all sum
mer. Uncls Jlmmle 1s again ready, to
sell out but he wants 130,000 for his
ranch thla time Inetead of 120,000.
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New telephone line between Drain and
Hayhurst valley.
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Great gardening going on In sou than
Oregon.
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Hardscrabble Correspondence the
Drain Nonpareil: There te no fish this
spring, owing to too much sawdust in
the creek. Here le a Job for the game
warden.
Vale Ortano: - Sheepmen ara loakln
for men to help them through lambing
tlma They are also looking for grass.
Sixteen yeara ago we had a winter
something .like this and it was esti
mated that 71 per cent of all the stock
died. Thla year there will net be a 10
pep oent loss. The range Is shorter
now than It was then, but the ranches
have Improved and , there was lote ef
feed. . .. .
Ontario voted 17,000 echool bonds.
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Building and development boom In
Nyssa. . -,...-
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Plenty of most kinds of fruit In t res
pect after alt
Albany ahould
rsbuild . Us woolen
mUla.
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New foundry building In Cloverdaie. .
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Sand lake Correspondsnee of Clover-
dale Courier: Every one has a bad eold
nowadays. ' : -
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s or lrrlgaTTdrraeveldpmenrirounl
Bend thla summer.
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Whttelake'e prospects bright - ' '
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Lots of sugar beets sure 4n Klamath
county in a few years.
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Lots of shad trees being set out In
the prairie parte of Oregon.
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Irrlgon Irrigator: Water haa been
running the full length of the main
canal, the past week and a great many
landowners are buay irrigating.
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Snow going, flowers blooming. ' In
Wallowa eounty, -
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The election in Joseph resulted In the
auccass of what was called the "Prog
ress" ticket, the councUmen.fsvorlng a
well-regulated Open town. The vote
east was the largest In- the history of
ths town, being 1S4, and a number of
cltlxene were out of town. .
If you watch Medford you . will aee
It grow about aa rapidly aa any towa
In Oregon.: i .
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The Oregon suprsme court le getting
further behind. There should be at
least Ave Justices. Three cannot keep
the work up to data Salem Statesman.
The trouble is, too much,, nonsensical
rot goea up to the suprsme court
as.' '
InFforgeOo'patronlseregon-In
dustries.
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Mew wilt yeu have your eggs
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No houses for rent In Prairie City.
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Freewater will surely gat a cannery.
Freewater Correspondence of Esst
Orssronlan: Fruitgrowers and farmers
are all hard' at work on their farme, and
proopecbB-ere- very encouraging at this
time,- Very little fruit haa been lost
from the .severe March freese, and the
usual crop Is expected; Irrigating la at
ita height In the Hudson Bay district.
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Now that ths Tillamook country Is
sure of getting one railroad, there are
chances thet It will gat another, and
probably a third and a fourth. There Is
ample room - there now for one, and
there will la time ne plenty ot busi
ness for tli res or four more.
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New telephone line to Bohemia being
constructed. . Snow gradually, going off.
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ARCHBOLD AND 1THE
STANDARD, oiL
, From, the New York World.'..
"There la 'no master mind In ' the
Standard Oil eomnany." said Joba D.
Archbold to Attorney-General Iladley ef
Missouri, who "wss - -cross-examining
him; 'it Is made up of an aggregation
or individuals devoted to Its interests
Thus the vice-president and most ac
tive director revealed the oiigarony or
oil the secret of the trust's msnsge-
ment the source of Its power, the doml
nation ef a ruling claaa '
"There le no managing officer," contin
ued Mr. Archbold. "Mr. Keckefeller Is
the nominal executive bead, but for ten
yeara he haa had ne active personal re-
latlonahiD whatever with the business.
He le the nominal head because of the
desire of the shareholders that he as
sume that relationship .and retain it
but he has had- nothing whatever to do
with the transaction of .business for
many yeara" . r - - - --
"But you," aald the attorney-general.
"are, -perhaps, more- active than any
other Individual, longer In the service
and more prominent la the oil side of
the' bualneea" - : - - -
"It Is, perhaps, fair for me te say
that I am," was the reply.
For 10 yeara the secrets of-man a ge
nt ent of America s richest and most
powerful corporation have been guarded
In an extraordinary way. - From the be
ginning lte policy waa aecrecy. John
IX, Rockefeller laid down that rule be
cause ha himself had suspicious, .se
cretive nature. Therefore the man who
now not only dares to reveal the work
Inge within the citadel at No. Sf Broad
way, but also proclaims the retirement
of the king and hie own ascendancy, be
comes Instantly one of the most strik
ing figures of the day.
"I have been with the Standard since
1I7S or 1I7S," Mr. Archbold said. "I
waa first connected with the oil busi
ness In western Pennsylvenls- and I
came Tnto the Standard thrHgh -the
Acme OH company. I nave had an of
fice at No. tS Broadway elnce the build.
Ing was erected, some IS or more yeara
go. - I am one ef the vlce-presldsnts.'
This much constitutes the entire au
tobiography that could be drawn from
Mr. Archbold. Voluble In epeaklng of
others, he baffled all efforts of his ex
aminer to tell more ef himself, his du
ties and his power In the corporation.
But the oil men of western Pennsyl
vania remember him.-" As a young Inde
pendent-operator he first fought John
D. Rockefeller and the South Improve
ment company scheme, which waa. ths
first attempt at monopoly In the early
seventies. He ; was active, snergetio
and aggresslva Miss Ida' Tarbell telle
In her history of the Standard of his
next., move: v
In the early fall ef 1871 there ap
peared John D. ; Archbold, an energetic
young refiner and oil buyer, well known
in Tltusvllle -as the representative of
a new company, the Acme Oil company,
a concern which everybody believed to
be an offshoot of the Standard, though
nobody could prove" It. As a matter
of fact the Acme was capitalised and
controlled entirely by Standard men, its
took holders being in addition to Mr.
Archbold. William Rockefeller, W. O.
Gordon, F. Q. Barstow . and , Charles
Pratt r
It waa evident at enca that the
Acme had come Into the oil regions for
the purpose of absorbing the independ
ent Interests, as Mr. - Rockefeller and
his eollengues - were absorbing else
where. The. work wee done with a
promptness and dispatch which do
credit to the energy and resourceful
ness of the engineer- of the enterprise.
In - three -years all but two ef the re
fineries of Tltusvllle had -retired from
bualness gloriously,' as Mr. Archbold,
flushed with victory, told the counsel
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania
In 1179, when th state authorities
were trying to find' who wee at work
In the oil Intereeta te eause aucb a col
lapse." Born .of Scotch parents In Steuben-
vllle, Ohio, about IS years ago, Mr.
Archbold Inherited qualltlea ef shrewd
ness, thrift awennesa andambltlon.
Theae , Scotch characteristics In thslr
rough edges were tempered by a, fine
sense of humor that often smoothed the
way. He knew when to laugh and when'
te fights -:
When a boy Ms parents moved to Tl
tusvllle,- Pennsylvania. " He had some
schooling and became a clerk In a coun
try store. Then -oil wss discovered and
the young man Invested every dollar he
oould save er borrow In that business.
For hie work In the Acme Oil company
he became one of the Standard's lead
ers. When the trust was formed, in
?Tlt0agTona--ef the ntne trustees.
In company with John JX and William
Rockefeller, ' O. H. Payne, J. A. Boat-
wlck, H. W. Flagler. W. O. Wordan.
Charlea Pratt and Benjamin Brewster.
Even H. H. Rogers did not attain first
rank until several yeara -later. .
As a New Torker, Mr. Archbold Ions
lived at the corner of Madison avenue
and Thirty-seventh street nearly oppo
site J. P. Morgan's house." But now he
ependa most of his time In his country
place near Tarrytown. His son-ln-Iaw,
Michael M. van Beuren. member Of an
old Knickerbocker fami.y, proved ex
ceedingly useful to the Standard ae a
dummy holder of stock In a supposedly
Independent corporation.
Attorney-General Hadley disclosed
that a majority of the atock ot the
Waters-Pleroe Oil company ef Missouri
Is m the name of Mr. Van. Beuren. His
Identity was a mystsry for soms time,
until the relationship to Mr. Archbold
waa discovered, and finally admission
waa made by the Standard lawyers
that Mr. Van Beuren waa merely a
dummy for the trust The Waters
Pierce company waa a modern duplica
tion of the Aome company for monopo
lising the southwest. . The son-in-law
concealed - ths real ownership, while
Mr. Archbold directed Ita affairs jTor
the truet
As Mr. Rockefeller has made Chicago
university the recipient of large dona
tions,' so Mr. Archbold haa abowered
money and attention on Syracuse uni
versity. He la prealdent of the board of
trustees, and altogether his gifts have
amounted to more than $750,000. Sixteen
years ago James R. Day, the present
chancellor, wss pastor of a church in
Nsw York City which Mr. Archbold at
tended. Through that connection he be
came first a trustee, then president of
the board. He gave the university Its
athletio grounds, called Archbold field,
and now a fine stadium seating 10.000
people Is being built at his expense.
This will cost 1225,000. Four years ago
when the university was raising an en
dowment fund. Mr. Archbold gave tefiO,
000. He always attends meetings of the
trustees and his appearance Is greeted
with cheers by the studsnts.
His gifts to ths university were first
made anonymously, and it-was some
time before his Identity became known.
He follows this plan In relation to numer
ous pther Institutions which he endows
liberally. Mr. Archbold Is modest In
his boms life and unostentatious In his
giving. His family constats of his wife,
a son and two daughters, one married
to Mr.' Van Beuren..
- There Is a custom among men ta the
-v .,, , ....
oil business of comparing Mr. Archbold
le the great Napoleon. , Certainly the
comparison Is permissible physically. Ths
cniei. ol . lhe Standard oussreny . na
very small body and a vary big head,
He is near Napoleon's height feet
Inches.-- He la extremely active;-he can
work many hours with little Bleep. He
has a long head and a smooth-shaven
face, but hie feature bear no resem
bianco to thoss ef the French emperor,
Success and luxury. caused Napoleon to
grow fat and lasy, Possession or mil'
lions of dollars haa not In pressed Mr.
Arcbbold's waist measure. Age has not
taken -the spring eut of his Isgs
In that granite bastlle at No. M Broad
way which houses the Standard ell
garohy and Ita ' hundreds ' of fearing.
cringing employee, there la Just one man
wno dares lauxh and who doea laugn
Me la Jnhn rt AnhKntif Tn h earl
daya f the' oil game It waa said of
him - that As laughed ble way to auo-
oess. No grim Joker Is be, uke Rogers,
whose smile IS a frown, but possessed
of Jolly, roly-poly, side-shaking laugh
ter when the etory Is good or tne situa
tion ludicrous.
Tst - lightning r never --fleshed .- more
quickly than the change ot an Archbold
laugh' to fierce, daring, fearless fighting
when the Standard la attacked. To the
gtant - corporation he is passionately at
tached. Hie whole life and energy are
bound up In It ' lie has f ouah.tioc-it
day and night; the greater the odda the
more aggreearve his attacks.
In every one of the ' Investigations
and legal assaults ' Mr. Arohbold haa
been the leader of the Standard forces.
No subpoena ever had terrors tor hint,
Process servers never have had to trail
his footsteps to hiding places His
lawyers Stand ready to accept aervtce
for'
aim any tiro v- iBiopnoni wnen
you want him to go on the witness
stand." Is the message given. te trust
bustere gunning for the Standard. Then
from theovery first question the battle
Is on. Sharp of tpngus, ready with
response, rearing no man nor taw, al
ways en ths aggressive Insteed of the
defensive, Mr. Archbold's battles, with
legal examiners have sometimes been
like rounds of a prise fight a feather
weight meeting the", heavy weights, giv
ing blow for blow.
gome yeara ago Attorney-General
Monnett of Ohio attacked the Standard
and examined Ita officers In thla city
Just as Mr. Hadley haa done. The pro
ceeding's degenerated Into controversy
so bitter that some ene euggeeted there
would be a right
"I'm In trim, you dog, you miserable
whelp, you dirty, stinking curl" shouted
Archbold to one of the opposing law
yers wno towered above him.
A few weeke ago during the Mis
souri proceedings i en artist . began
sketching Mr. 'Archbold as he eat la
the- courtroom. Suddenly with a leap
from hie ebalr the Standard man was
across the room and struck the paper
and pencil from the artist's .hands.
'How dare you take my picture!", he
shouted. "1 forbid you."
Again he appealed to the commis
sioner for protection from she artists
while he was In ths witness chair. " To
the reporters he said: - "You nswspapst
chsps are all right but the artists are
Infamous."
No other person In the Standard la ao
close to John D. Rockefeller as Mr.
Archbold: none so high In the chiefs
confidence; none who obtained so large
piece of the fallen mantle. ' The old
guard of Standard magnates have drift
ad into -other fields all save Archbold.
Rogere haa his financial speculations
Flaglsr has his Florida railroads and
hotels: Payne has retired; the Hark
nesses no longer figure;' even John D.
and William Rockefeller have become
mere figureheads. But Archbold de
votes himself eolely to Standard OIL
No- slds Issues divert . him. - He la at
the helm every - day. And above all,
his loyalty to Mr. Rockefeller and the
great Institution built up by him 1
without equal throughout the Standard
asmy.
Trusts. r to speak more correctly.
large, corporations," said Mr. Archbold.
on one occasion, "are a necessary evo
lution ef the time. The outcry against
trusts does not come from the Indus
trial classes, but from the sentimental
ists,, yellow Journalists and political
demagogues the last the most of alL
The talk of monopoly will aoon be done
away with. The remedy for the unrest
on this question undoubtedly . lies In
the direction of national and federal
corporations. Our present system ot
etate corporations le vexatious alike to
the business community and to - the
authoiitiea."
It was six years ago that Mr. Arch
bold said the agitation against trusts
would - soon pass away. " Last week he
waa placed en the wltneas stand and
questioned by a young "trust-buster"
who had . come ..out of the . west. He
was brought face to face with a tide
of hostile publle opinion and stern de
cisions of the highest eourts in the
land, all directed against trusts. The
attorney-general from Missouri was
quiet polite, but Insistent and wonder
fully in earnest The chief factor of
the oligarchy of oil who had shouted
"liar" before another attorney-general,
who had fought congressional com
missions and state legislators, who had
defied many an Investigation, now bowed
to the authority or a etate and
answered, the questions,, putto him
without evasion.
It remained for this little man with
head full of brains and courage to
make a etep forward. 1 He was the first
man in the Standard to suggest federal
Incorporation and complete surrender to
the national government as a solution
of the . corporation problem, and now
he was the first to openly tell of ths
ruling system of the . great monopoly
and .the retirement ef Mr. Rockefeller to
save him from Inquisition.
In the fighting, struggling days of
ths Standard John V. Rockefeller waa
the autocrat The others were his lieu
tenants, executing his orders with fer
vor and enthusiasm. But with wealth
came age and ill health. - The king laid
aside his soeptsr.
Is It on account of poor heslth then
he has retired from active business r
asked Attorney-General Hadley.
That and advancing years and a dis
position to retire," was the reply of Mr.
Archbold.
"In hie abufcnce Who lias looked after
the business T" ..
Then did Mr. Archbold reveal the se
cret of the oligarchy the aggregation
of Individuate devoted to Its interests,
aa he termed It; and he gave the names
of some of them." These are the men
who now .actively guide the Standard's
bualness!
John D. Archbold, H. IT. Rogers,
Jamee A. Moffatt, Walter Jennings. W.
If. and II. M. Ttlford, E. T. Bedford.
Frauk Q. Barstow, William G. Rocke
feller. '
No one man la aupreme In any de
partment. None can act without con
sultation with ethers. Each branch of
the business Is governed by a commit
tee, with the added assistance of men
of lower rank from the respective de
partments. The ruling families sit like
the senators of Rome, each with sup
posedly equal authority. They send out
generate and pro-consuls to all parte of
the world governing the numerous prov
inces of the' trust empire. In the heed
quarters at No. 20 Broadway hits a dele
gated agent or .governor for each of the'
subsldlsry companies Te him the far
away colonies that maintain form ef
sSSsaSssSWssaasssSsBSl
LETTERS. FROM
PEOPLE
THE
Zrfuid Taxatloa.
Flrland Station, Lents, Or., April It,
To the Editor of The Journal About
a week ego there appeared In your col
umns en article entitled "Get a. Piece
of Lend," which wound up by aaylng
something to thla effect: Those who
own the land' may be, If they choose,
rulers of the . earth. Again In your
April IX edition under "Small Change"
you aay 'Taxation la a great problem
never yet properly solved." Please, Mr.
Editor may I butt la? - -
It might have been In line to add to
piece No, 1 that the owners of the land
under present conditions are in fact
rulers of the earth, and the people
thereon are their slaves,
In order that a country should at
tain highest prosperity tt Is necessary
that the wealth should be fairly di
vided. The sources of wealth eome un
der three main heads, land, labor and
capital. The wealth, produced Is divi
ded among these In the following man
ner: The landlord receives rent 'the
laborer -wages, ths capitalist draws In
terest Now aa a city grows waxes and
Interest dscrsase while rent ' Increases.
Thus we have a curloua phenomenon.
The more energy, labor and ' capital
put Into the production of wealth the
lass their net return, while tha less
energy the landlord expands, the great
er nis net return.
When a speculator In land value
holds a valuable location for a time
and sella for three or four tlmee the
coet, he has done nothing whatever 'of
value for the community, yet the com
munity rewarda him with an enormous
return. '
Since by Improved methods more and
more net wealth la being produced, and
since rents Increase ' while net wagea
and net Intereet decrees, we must eon-
eiuae tnat uie wealth, of the city la
being diverted from the producers'
pockets into the land speculators'.
now land speculation, which Is one
of tha'. greatest-deterrents- to national
prosperity, may be . entirely . overcome
oy proper taxation. ' ,
Henry George eolved that problem
eome 15 yeere ago. His' booka are In
our publlo library. His remedy la sim
ple and to the point A tax upon most
commodities Increases the price of that
article,- or the eoneumer pay e the tax, -A
tax upon land decreases the price ot
w tana, and should the tax be raised
from the land alone, the amount to vary '
wun toe aesirsbiuty of the lend. land
speculation would be entirety eut out
and a vast amount of wealth now flow
ing Into speculators' pockets would re
turn to the labor and capital which pro
duced, It - --- I a SINGLE TAKER. , -
LEWIS AND CLARK
"At White Salmon, Washington.
April IS. In the morning the party
all Joined ua with four more deer. After
breakfast we resumed our Journey, end -though
the wind wae high during the
day, yet by keeping along the northern
shore we were able to proceed without
danger. At 1 o'clock we halted for din
ner at a large villa ge situated in a nar- '
row bottom. Just above the entrance of
Canoe creek. -The houses are detached -
from each other, ao as to occupy an
axtsnt of several miles, though only 20
In number. Those which are Inhabited
are on the eurface of: the earth, and
built In the aame ahape as those near
ths rapids; , but there were others at
present evacuated, which are completely
under ground. They are aunk about .
eight feet. deep. . covered . with strong
timbers and several feet of earth In
a conical form. On - descending by
means of a ladder through a hole at
the top, which answers the double pur
pose of door and a chimney, we found .
that the house consisted of a single
room, nearly circular and about II feet
In diameter. The inhabitants, who call .
themselves WeockaockwUlacum, differ . .
but little from those near the rapids,
the ehlef distinction In dress being a
few leggings and moccasins, which we
find here like those worn by the. Cho- .
punnlsh. These people have 10 or 11
very good- horses, which are the first
we have eeen alnce leaving this neigh'
borhood last autumn. . Ths country be
low la. Indeed, of such a nature as te
prevent the use of this animal, except ,
In the Columbian valley,, and there they . .
would not be of great service, for the .
Inhabitants reside chiefly on the liver -side,
and the country Is too thickly
wooded to suffer tham to hunt gams
on horseback. Moat of these, they In- ,
form us, have been taken In a warlike
exoursloa which waa lately made against '
ths Towanabioota. a. part of Ihs 6naki
nation living in the upper part of the
Multnomah, to the southeast of this
place. After dinner we proceeded .and.
paaslng at the distance of elz miles
the high cliffs on ths left camped at
the mouth of a email run on the aame :
side. A little above ua la a village con
stating of about 100 fighting men of
tribe called Smackahopa many ' of
whom passsd the evening with ua. They
do not differ. In any respect from thn
Inhabitants of the -village below, -
- Justice Harlan's Selection.
From the New Tork World.
Justice Harlan of the United 8tateg
supreme court hale, hearty and over 70,
said last night: "I suppose I am the
only man of my age In the country who
can - truthfully aay that I have never
eaten anything that disagreed with '
me."
"Is that due, asked Secretary Root,
"to a careful selection of yeur foodf
'No, elr," aald the Justice, "but to a
careful and Intelligent selection of my
stomach at an early data"
Independence must report, and from him,
they receive their orders. The vast sys-
tern le dovetailed together, no one part
Independent of the other, no one mats
free from the supervision ox a cow
league. T", . -.- , ....
But hovering around the outskirts of
New Tork. always hidden, but hie pres
ence aJwaye felt is John D. Rockefeller,
the -titular and nominal head - of - this .
great corporation. , Hie life la Ilks thst
ef the grand lama of Tibet, hidden In
the secrets of Lhasa. "He still plays a -
part ths rols of arbiter. To him the
oligarchy refers Its disputes when It
cannot agree, and from his retrest he
hands down the law thst savss them
from division and dissension. "
The future of thle remarkable bueu
ness system when the old members Shalt -pass
sway Is a sepculatlon. ' Ths
oligarchy of Greece gave way to the y
rant klnga The oligarchy of Rome
turned Into a deepotkj empire. To Mr,
Archbold It te but the beginning of eo
operative evolution and benevolent pa
ternalism by lsree corporations over
their armies of employes. .
"I believe that the large corporations '
of the present day.", he haa eald, "rep
resent more nearly this cooperation! .
than any other system yst undertaken. '
Possibly there may be accomplished in
the eventuel evolution of the race Uni
versal cooperation or community of liv
ing, but the accomplishment of sucjl a
dream Is so far In the future ee te put
tt out ef the question for serious coa
sideratieo la this era , , .
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